| Genre: | thriller |
| Based On: | 'play by Lucille Fletcher |
| Director: | Raymond Menmuir |
| Starring: | Georgie Sterling |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 35 mins |
| Company: | ABC |
| Network: | ABC |
| Released: | (Sydney, live)[1] |
| Released2: | (Melbourne, taped)[2] |
Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1958 Australian television play based on Lucille Fletcher's radio play Sorry, Wrong Number. It starred Georgie Sterling.[3]
It was one of several thrillers filmed in the early days of Australian television.[4]
The bed-ridden Mrs Stevenson hears on a telephone, due to crossed wires, that a murder is being plotted to occur tonight. She calls various people in a desperate attempt to get someone to believe her story. As the night goes on, she becomes increasingly concerned that the victim may be someone she knows.
Sterling had performed in the play on radio in 1948.[5]
Ray Menmuir directed.[6] Menmuir had only just finished directing Murder Story for the ABC.[7]
The ABC subsequently broadcast another one person play on television, Box for One.[8]